Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 371
Land area (2000): 224.296116 sq. miles (580.924250 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.159355 sq. miles (3.002716 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 225.455471 sq. miles (583.926966 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53600
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 41.947928 N, 116.135181 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Owyhee
Housing Units (2000): 4452
Land area (2000): 7677.984864 sq. miles (19885.888661 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.723521 sq. miles (48.493695 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7696.708385 sq. miles (19934.382356 sq. km)
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.806872 N, 116.190499 W
Headwords:
Owyhee, ID
Owyhee County
Owyhee County, ID
Wikipedia
Owyhee or Owhyhee is an older English spelling of Hawaii, used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is found in the names of certain locations in the American part of the Pacific Northwest, which were explored and mapped by expeditions whose members included native Hawaiians:
- Owyhee, Nevada, a community in north-central Nevada
- Owyhee County, Idaho, the southwesternmost county of Idaho
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Owyhee River, a river in Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon
- Owyhee Dam, a dam on the river
- Lake Owyhee, a lake in Oregon
- Owyhee Desert, a desert in Nevada and Idaho
- Owyhee Mountains, a mountain range in Idaho and Oregon
Usage examples of "owyhee".
By dawn tomorrow or the day after that he would pass into Nevada, triking Owyhee first and then Mountain City, and in Mountain City there was a man named Christopher Bradenton who would see that he had a clean car and some clean papers and then the country would come alive in all its glorious possibilities, a body politic with its network of roads embedded in its skin like marvelous capillaries, ready to take him, the dark speck of foreign matter, anywhere or everywhere-heart, liver, lights, brain.
OWYHEE, or Hawaii, as it is written by more exact orthographers, is the largest of the cluster, ten in number, of the Sandwich Islands.